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Pacific Northwest History: Primary Sources: Regional
Regional Primary Sources
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwestextensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These cultures have occupied, and in some cases still live in parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
- The Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archives
The 1,200-mile long Columbia River drains a 259,000-square-mile basin that includes territory in seven states (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah) and one Canadian province (view map). - Northwest Historical Annual ReportsAnnual financial reports (1930s - 1990s) for Pacific Northwest companies.
- UW Libraries Digital CollectionsBrowse all digital collections available from the UW Libraries. You can limit searches to text only, image only or browse by topic.
Newspapers, Magazines, & Government Documents
For national coverage of events in Washington state history, search within these sources.
- American Indians and the American West This link opens in a new window
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Collections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th Centuries. (ProQuest History Vault)
Select Browse and then Indian Removal and Indian Wars. Or, select Advanced Search and then select American Indians and the American West from the selection menu.
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Full image of 18th, 19th, and 20th century U.S. magazines.
- Los Angeles TimesFull image version from 1881 -1987.
- New York TimesFull image version from 1851-2007.
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American magazine articles published between 1890 and 1982. - Territorial Papers of the United States, 1764-1953: Series 1 This link opens in a new window
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Territorial government documents including Native American negotiations and treaties, official correspondence with the federal government, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, and land records.
- Wall Street JournalFull image version from 1889-1993.
Historical Pacific Northwest Newspapers
For additional dates of the titles listec below, search by title of newspaper in Advanced Search in the UW Libraries Search and limit your search to Journals.
- Chronicling America: OregonA small collection of late 19th and early 20th century Oregon Newspapers including the Evening Herald (1908-1922) and the Daily Astorian (1876-1890)
- Chronicling America: WashingtonSmall collection of papers from the late 19th century and early 10th. Includes the Tacoma Times, 1903-1918
- Democratic Standard (Portland)Although there are just a few years available online (1854, 1857-1859), this is an important primary source for early Oregon history.
- Historic Oregon NewspapersA full-image searchable database of Oregon newspapers published between 1860 and 1922.
- Historic Washington NewspapersPapers from Washington Territory.
- Idaho StatesmanJuly 1864-1900.
- Morning Olympian1891-1900. Includes Daily Olympian and Morning Olympian Tribune.
- Oregonian [Access World News]
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Newspaper page images, Feb 1861-1987
Full-text, 1987 to current - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Newspaper page images for Dec 1901-2009 and text only for 2010-2022.
April 1882-1900 included in Chronicling America.
For 1876 to 1882 use microfilm A329 held in the microforms & newspapers collection. - Seattle Times1900-1984 Facsimile image
1984-date Text only - Tacoma Daily News & News Tribune, 1889-to dateTacoma Daily News, 1889 - 6/15/1918
News Tribune, 6/17/1918 - 8/17/1922
Tacoma News Tribune, 8/18/1922-1987
Morning News Tribune, 1988-1991
News Tribune, 1992 to present text only